sheldon week 3

How
does
Attebery (1980)
define Fantasy? Find at least five definitions.

Fantasy is a concepts that cant really be tamed to just one meaning. its vastness and diversity exudes beyond all stereotypes. the dictionery defines it; . 1. As a genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, esp.in a setting other than the real world. 2. An idea with no basis in reality.

W.R Irwin says, ''whatever the meterial, extravagent or semingly commonplace, a narrative is a fantasty if it presents the persuasive establishment and development of an impossilbillity, an arbitary construct of the mind withh all under the control of logic and rehotic. Fantasy then presupposees a view of exterior reailty which it goes on to contradict. it is as J.R.R Tolkien said "founded upon the hard recognition that things are so in the world as it appears under the sun; on a recdognition of the fact but not a slavery to it.''

there are ways in in which we can distinguish between fantasy and other related genres. Science fiction spends much ofits time convincing the reader that its seeming impossiblities are in fact explainable if we extroplate from the world and science that we know.Lyric Poetry often deals with impossibilities, but it generally does so not by asserting their existance in a fictional universe but b y treating them as a tempoarymanifestations of states of mind. Narrative poetry often approaches the fantastic, but narrative verse seems to have been all but phaesd out by less restrictede lyric forms.

Fantasy thou, needs consistency. reader and writter are committed to maining the illusion of the entire course of the fiction.
Fantasy invokes wonder by making the impossible seem fimiliar and the fimiliar seem new and strange.

Reference:

Attebery, B. The Fantasy tradition in america literature: from irving to le guin. bloomington: indian university press, 1980, pg 1-10

W.R Irwin, the game of impossible: a Rhetoric of fantasy (Urbana, Il, University of Illinois Press, 1976), p.4

J.R.R Tolkien, "On fairy-stories, in tree and leaf (Boston:Houghton Muffin Company, 1965) p.55"